Let Me Read To You

Let Me Read To You

Let me read to you

Tell you the stories my mother told me

Hear the words I read

Let your mind wander

Seeing the world of fairies and angels

Princesses and heroes

Learn that love really exists

The hope is in everything

Let me read to you as you fall asleep

So you may dream of happiness

And the nightmares will be kept away

Let me read to you

Because I love you and I want you to be happy

So that you may write your own fairy tales

And you will read them to your children

So, let me read to you

Hope

Hope

The world is crumbling around you

Everything you knew is gone

Your mummy and daddy

In graves a city away

Taken from you for no reason

Other than the anger of others

Hang on little one

There are lights in your future

You can see them in your eyes

In the eyes of the puppy you hold

Someday the anger will end

Your world will again be happy

But for now love your puppy

Hold it tight to your chest

Treasure it as you would your life

It will always be there for you

Filled with the love you lost

My dream is that you name it Hope

Because that is what you need right now

You need to hold onto Hope

As long as you can

Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear

It is so sad to see a teddy bear

Left all alone

Where is the child you loved

The one you comforted during the storms

The one who told you all their secrets

The one who promised they would always be your friend

The one you protected from the monsters under the bed

You know they didn’t mean to leave you

Drop you in a place where you may never be found

You know that they loved you too much for that

They have more secrets to share

There will be a million more storms

There will always be a monster under the bed

In that child’s mind

When they are frightened they will think of you

Remember that you were there for them

Remember that you kept them safe

And if you are lucky another child will find you

Take you home and share their secrets with you

Hide under the blankets with you in a storm

And show you the monsters who hide under their bed

Then maybe they will make you their bestest friend

Perfect You

Perfect You

Little girl

Beautiful little girl

Why do you let others decide for you

How you should look

What body you should have

They do not know you

They have never seen you

The ones you look at

They are not real

They are airbrushed

They are made of plastic

You are the real girl

True to nature

Your hair may not be right

There may be a couple extra pounds

Don’t listen to magazines, TV or movies

Just remember

You are the way you should be

You are the perfect you

Blood Moon

Blood Moon

Look up at the sky

Watch Diana as she flies over

Her light casts dark red

The color of all she had defeated

It is a special night

When she shows her true self

For the world below to see

Pray to her on that night

Let her know that you see her

For in a few short hours

The true Diana will hide once again

Covered but the silver glow of the Moon

Blessed are the few moments we live for

The time when the blood moon rises

And the world is once again in a red light

That moment Diana will keep her promise

She will show us the heavens and the Earth

Show us life and death

She will show us the future and the past

So we stand and wait

Watching the horizon for the Moon to rise

And we will pray to Diana and all she offers

Then we will be blessed

Mother Nature's Blood

Mother Nature’s Blood

Watch Mother Naure bleed

Kill one of her children

Shoot that mother deer

Leave the fawn to fend for itself

You won’t take the meat

You won’t use the pelt

The deer died for your amusement

You didn’t care that she didn’t die right away

She laid on a pile of leaves

Watching her baby hidden in the bushes

You just walked away

Looking for another target as she took her last breath

The little fawn cried as her mother’s eyes closed

She snuggled to wake her mom up to play

But her mother was gone

The hunters left hours later

The more deer lay dead across the woods

More babies were left orphaned

Mother Nature bleeds with every death

She can feel an animal’s soul go to Heaven

Her blood covers the forest

Only to be washed away in the rain

The roses though

The beautiful white roses

They hold on to the blood

They hold on to the memories of the fallen

And they will show Mother Nature’s blood on their petals

There it will remain until the moment when the killing stops

And Mother Nature bleeds no more.

A Painting By Hitler

A Painting By Hitler

How did you make such beauty

Such perfect colors

Light and shadows set in just the right places

What were you thinking

Did you see the beauty of Austria

Did you imagine the people who lived in your art

Were they the blue-eyed blonde people you loved

Was your mind set away from the world you made

Or did you see every dead soldier in the colors

Was each brush-stroke marking someone else sent to the ovens

Why didn’t you paint the suffering you caused

The children and babies being killed at your whim

The old people who lived too long

The Jews, gays and gypsies who you hated for no reason

Why didn’t you paint them.

You will be remembered for all time

Not as an artist

You were never that good

You will be remembered as a murderer

You will be remembered as  lunatic

We will remember the millions you killed

The tortures you inflicted

We will mourn the people you killed

But no one will mourn you…ever